China-based mining giant Bitmain has been experiencing major changes over the past few months, and now it seems that those changes have finally made their way to the company’s key figures. Reportedly, Bitmain’s two CEOs, Jihan Wu and Zhan Ketuan,...
ShapeShift, a prominent token-swapping platform, has added itself to the long list of crypto companies that have performed a major layoff over the course of the crypto winter. According to CEO Erik Voorhees, ShapeShift has just dismissed thirty-seven of its...
A new app called Veil is about to go live, and it will make use of several existing blockchain platforms including 0x, Ethereum, and―most importantly―Augur. Veil claims that it will be able to bring prediction markets and crypto derivatives to...
The Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain is currently undergoing deep reorganizations that indicate a 51% attack may be underway. The security firm SlowMist reportedly alerted the Ethereum Classic community of the problem on Monday, and a number of other sources are...
The Ethereum Foundation has announced that it is awarding a grant of $5 million to Parity Technologies, a closely related company that will help make preparations for Ethereum 2.0 (or “Serenity”), which is scheduled for release in the near future....
Bitcoin SV, one of the factions that emerged from Bitcoin Cash’s hard fork in November, has decided to rebrand its coin with a new logo. The mainstream version of the Bitcoin SV logo will drop the coin’s previous dragon imagery...
Gemini, a major exchange, seems to have caused trouble in the trading world by offering investors a good deal on stablecoins. As originally reported on TheBlockCrypto, the exchange offered a 2% discount on its own Gemini dollar (GUSD) by selling...
In the crypto world, it is common knowledge that public keys can be shared freely, as those keys simply represent an address that can be used to receive money. Unlike private keys, public keys cannot be used to withdraw funds...
Zcash, a prominent privacy coin, has announced plans to reduce its rapid inflation rate. Currently, the coin is experiencing inflation at a rate of 0.1% per day. This may not sound like much, but the rate compounds dramatically over the...
A short-lived scam that promised to improve blockchain scalability emerged yesterday. ERC-20 Blue, which attempted to lure in Ethereum enthusiasts, was announced on a fake Medium blog that briefly posed as the Ethereum Foundation. The fake account was quickly shut...
